The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-01-28

but doves at the first dash of the bird Of
prey speed for shelter from fiery eye and
iron beak and lcathsorae talon.
So to-day these souls come here for
shelter. Every one has a besetting sin;
that sin is always after you. The rohber
watches you when you come out of the
bank: sees in what pocket you put the
money: notices where you go to dine, and
whore you sleep, and what kind of lock
you have on your door; so there is some sin
ever on a mans track II goes with him
to the store; If sits on the money safe: IL
looks over his shoulder while he makes ont
the bill Of ladins: it goes out with him to
dine; it walks home with him at night
As to some dog that you do not want to
follow you but persists. you say to 1T:
BACK home with your You stone it
away and start on. After awhile. casually
turning your eve, You find it close after
You with sneaking look
Wherever you go. sin goes: where you
STAY sin STAYS. You have watched the
hawk above tho barnyari; it sails around
and around over the brood OF chick
ems around and around. now al
most down to the flock then back again,
until at las. it drops and SEXES the prey.
There is hawk ready to pounce on every
dove. ami that is the reason that these
doves come today to the wirdows-they
want shelter in the grace of God and IN
Christian associations. They say: " II
there be any power in your prayers. let me
have them; il there be any virtue in good
counsels. give them to me; if there be any
thing elevating in Christian associations,
let me feel their influence" Where thou
dwellest viii dwell Thy people shall be
my people. thy God my GodI'' Open your
doors. oh Charca Of God! and let them
come in las doves 10 their Windows
Christ is the only shelter of the soul IN
trouble What can you do without him
when sorrow comes, Perhaps at first you
take valerian to quiet your nerves or al
coho, to revive your spirits: but have you
found any thing in the medicines or phys
ical stimulants sufficient. Perhaps in the
excitement Of the money market or in the
merry-masing Of the club you have sought
relief This world has no balsam for a
wounded soul, no shelter for bruised
spirit
The dove in the time OF the deluge few
north. and it was all water, in which were
tossed the carcasses of the dead world, and
the first solid thing that the doves feet
touched was the window of the ark. So
the soul in trouble gees out in one direc-
ton and finds nothing substantial to rest
upon, and in another direction and every
whittier. but there is no rest for the dove
save the ark.
Substantial comfort viii not grow
In natures barren soil;
All We can boast. till Christ we know,
Is vanity and toll.
But where the Lord has planted grace,
And made His glories known.
There fruits OF Heavenly joys are found,
And there alone"
You lost parent: some one said that it
was in the regular course of nature that
ycur father should expire. Did that COM
fort you. You lost a child: somebody said
il that child had lived it might have turned
out badly. Did that comfort yous You
lost your property: they told you that
riches We're very uncertain. You knew
that before. You were sick: they ex-
planned to YOU that the difficulty was in the
secretions or in the sciat.c nerve Did
that soothe youa o, the despicable Guack-
err Of earthly comfort!
But when Christ comes TO the soul and
saws: Il took your estate because IwGutcd
to give you more valuable treasures; made
you sick il body that your soul might be
brought up to eternal health: took your
loved ones away because have better
and brighter place for them in My own
presenca"-then the wound heals; then
the tears dry of the face: then God has
become the everlasting portion of the soul
Oh. the air is full of black wings and
ravens beals. They Join their wings of
darkness until they shut out the light OF
the sun. They have fattened on the car
cases Of men. Their clangor is horrible
to the ear-troubie and disease and death
coming down on the wind No wotder
these souls have come for shelter las
doves to their Windows" What does the
pigeon in the coop care for the hawk in the
sky, Safe in Christ, safe forever. The
mountains rlay depart, and the hills be re-
Tlo-ed- but Thy loving kindness shall never
fail
Again. these souls. like doves, fiy home
Most of the win ged denizens have no horne:
now they are at the north AID now at the
south. as the climate indicates. This year
a nest in one tree next year nest in an
other tree. The golden oriole remains but
three months OF the year in Germany, and
is then gone: the unnet of Norway crosses
the ocean to find rest from the winters
blast; the heron, the goldfnch and the
grossbeak are migratory; the cranes cali
each other together few days before 60
ing. choose their leader, arrange them
selves in two lines, forming An angle, and
are gone.
But the pigeons alluded to in the text,
summer and winter and always. have a
home in the dove-cote. And so Christ is the
home of those who come to Him. He is a
warm home; they rest Hnder the feathers
of the Almighty" Christ tells US that
chickens find not a warmer place under the
wing of the hen than we in Him. He is a
safe home: our fortunes may go down ten
degrees below zero: the SHOWS of trouble
may fall; the winds of persecution may
howl: the iackals of death NAV stalk forth
all is well. for "great peace have they
who trust IN Cod From this home We
shall never be driven out. The sheriff may
sell Us out of our earthly house, or the fires
may burn it down. or the winds carry i.
away, but that home shall always be ours.
Men talk as though starting for God
were putting cut on 5 tracklesS moor, or
wandering through the sands of a great
Sahara No, no: it is coming TO the warm
est and best OF homes, las doves to their
windows.
Again, these souls to-day gathering for
membership. are ike doves, because they
come in fiocas. The buzzard, with dripping
beak- Cutteriag Up from the clrrio1 Is
aloaa- YoI occasionally look up against
the wiutry sky and see solitary bird
winging past But doves or pigeons are in
focks; by scores and hundreds do they
fiv You hear the loud whirr of their
wings IS they pass So to-day we see a
great flock coming into the Kingdom 1t is
Tot a straggier trying 20 catch up with MS
regiment; it is solid paalsnx, taking tho
Kingdom 1t is not drop on your hand or
cheek that leaves you Il doubt whether it
rains or not, but the rush Of an unulistaka-
bic shower.
There are all ages IN this fcck. Some Of
them are young, and the very first use